If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.
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I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.
Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.
It takes me about three years to write a book. They're very complex, and they take a lot of research, but also because the more popular your books get, the more popular you get, and people want to haul you off and look at you.
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
I can write a book in probably three months.
It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.
Normally, it takes me about three years to write one of the big books. It is usually four years between releases because of the huge amount of travel and PR and just nuisance going on around them. I have a lot of pressure from publishers and agents.
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